Attendees will enjoy musical numbers from A Gentleman's Guide To Love & Murder, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, The Bridges of Madison County, Fun Home, Violet and What's It All About? Bacharach Re-Imagined.

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Nominations for the 2014 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced April 25 at 54 Below by Academy Award winners Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and two-time Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Fran Drescher.

Nominators considered shows that opened on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway during the 2013-14 New York theatre season.

The new musical comedy A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder earned 12 nominations, the most of any production of the season. The new Jason Robert Brown-Marsha Norman musical The Bridges of Madison County also fared well, garnering nine nominations. The Off-Broadway musical Fun Home, which was recently named a Pulitzer Prize finalist, received eight nominations, while the Broadway musicals Aladdin and Rocky earned seven nominations apiece.

Outstanding MusicalA Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder AladdinBeautiful: The Carole King Musical
Fun HomeLove’s Labour’s LostRocky
The Bridges of Madison County

Outstanding Revival of a PlayI Remember Mama
London Wall
No Man's Land
Of Mice and Men
The Cripple of Inishmaan The Model Apartment Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe Production)

Outstanding Revival of a MusicalHedwig and the Angry Inch Les Misérables
Violet

Outstanding Actor in a Play
Bryan Cranston, All The WayHamish Linklater, The Comedy of ErrorsIan McKellen, No Man's LandDavid Morse, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin
Chris O'Dowd, Of Mice and MenDaniel Radcliffe, The Cripple of InishmaanDenzel Washington, A Raisin in the Sun

Outstanding Actress in a Play
Barbara Andres, I Remember MamaTyne Daly, Mothers and SonsAudra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Laurie Metcalf, DomesticatedJ. Smith-Cameron, Juno and the PaycockHarriet Walter, Julius Caesar

Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry InchAdam Jacobs, AladdinAndy Karl, RockyJefferson Mays, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Steven Pasquale, The Bridges of Madison County
Bryce Pinkham, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Betty Buckley, The Old FriendsJulia Coffey, London WallDiane Davis, The Model ApartmentCelia Keenan-Bolger, The Glass Menagerie
Jan Maxwell, The Castle
Sophie Okonedo, A Raisin in the Sun

Outstanding Music in a Play
Lewis Flinn, The Tribute ArtistElliot Goldenthal, A Midsummer Night's DreamRob Kearns, The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle
Tom Kochan, Almost, MaineNico Muhly, The Glass MenagerieDuncan Sheik, A Man's a Man

Outstanding RevueAfter Midnight
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Musik from the Weimar and Beyond Le Jazz Hot: How the French Saved Jazz
Til Divorce Do Us Part
What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined

Outstanding Set Design
Christopher Barreca, RockyAlexander Dodge, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Richard Hoover, Small Engine RepairSanto Loquasto, Bullets Over Broadway: The MusicalIan MacNeil, A Doll's HouseDonyale Werle, The Explorers Club

Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical
Kai Harada, Fun HomePeter Hylenski, Bullets Over Broadway: The MusicalPeter Hylenski, RockyBrian Ronan, Beautiful: The Carole King MusicalDan Moses Schreier, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Jon Weston, The Bridges of Madison County

Outstanding Sound Design in a Play
M.L. Dogg, The Open HouseKatie Down, The Golden DragonPaul James Prendergast, All The Way
Dan Moses Schreier, Act One
Christopher Shutt, Love and Information
Matt Tierney, Machinal

Outstanding Solo Performance
David Barlow, This is My OfficeJim Brochu, Character ManHannah Cabell, GroundedDebra Jo Rupp, Becoming Dr. RuthRuben Santiago-Hudson, August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned
John Douglas Thompson, Satchmo at the Waldorf

PRODUCTIONS WITH MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS:12 A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder 9 The Bridges of Madison County
8 Fun Home
7 Aladdin7 Rocky
6 Beautiful: The Carole King Musical 6 Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical5 All The Way
4 A Midsummer Night's Dream
3 After Midnight
3 Big Fish
3 Domesticated
3 Hedwig and the Angry Inch
3 London Wall
3 Love's Labour's Lost
3 The Glass Menagerie
3 Twelfth Night (Shakespeare's Globe Production) 3 Violet
2 A Raisin in the Sun
2 Cirkopolis
2 Heathers: The Musical
2 I Remember Mama
2 If/Then
2 Machinal
2 No Man's Land
2 Nutcracker Rouge
2 Of Mice and Men
2 Outside Mullingar
2 Tamar of the River
2 The Cripple of Inishmaan
2 The Explorers Club
2 The Model Apartment

Special Awards: Each year, the Drama Desk votes special awards to recognize excellence and significant contributions to the theatre.

For 2013-2014, these awards are:

To Soho Rep: For nearly four decades of artistic distinction, innovative production, and provocative play selection.
To Veanne Cox: For her ability to express the eccentricities, strengths, and vulnerabilities of a range of characters, and notably for her comedic flair as evidenced in this season’s The Old Friends and The Most Deserving.
To Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, the Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award: For his visionary directorial excellence. This season’s The Golden Dragon and The Mysteries exemplify his bold and strikingly original imagination.
To the ensembles of Off-Broadway’s The Open House and Broadway’s The Realistic Joneses and to the creator of both plays, Will Eno: For two extraordinary casts and one impressively inventive playwright.The Open House: Hannah Bos, Michael Countryman, Peter Friedman Danny McCarthy, and Carolyn McCormickThe Realistic Joneses: Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts and Marisa Tomei

A few notes from the Drama Desk: "As the current revival of Cabaret replicates the 1998 production, the Board deemed the show ineligible in the Outstanding Revival of a Musical category, as were performers, creative team members, and technical personnel associated with the earlier incarnation in their respective categories. Soul Doctor was considered for its Off-Broadway production in the 2012-13 season. Under Drama Desk rules, only new elements in its transfer to Broadway were eligible this season. Finally, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays was deemed ineligible because it was a return engagement of the 2005 Drama Desk winning show."

Gretchen Shugart is managing executive producer of the Drama Desk Awards. Joey Parnes Productions will produce and manage the show. The president of Drama Desk is Isa Goldberg, and Randie Levine Miller is director of special events.

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Drama Desk was founded in 1949 "to explore key issues in the theater and to bring together critics and writers in an organization to support the ongoing development of theater in New York. The organization began presenting its awards in 1955, and it is the only critics' organization to honor achievement in the theater with competition among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions in the same categories."